Apple is lying. Robots don't feel emotions.
Who will tell us the truth about robots when even researchers who know robots better than anyone flat-out lie?
Apple built an expressive lamp.
Researchers in Apple's Machine Learning Research division recently published a paper about the researchers' ELEGNT (pronounced "elegant") program, which exists to explore robotic expressiveness without humanlike voice or features.
Basically, they gave a lamp body language.
Inspired by Pixar's animated lamp logo, the ELEGNT…
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